Career Category
Maintenance
Job Description
At Amgen, our mission is simple: to serve patients. Every day, our teams ensure that critical manufacturing processes run safely, reliably, and compliantly — enabling the delivery of life-changing medicines to millions of patients worldwide. Join us as:
Manager Maintenance
At Amgen Breda, medicines are labeled, assembled, stored, and shipped to countries around the world. Every day, more than 1,000 colleagues from over 40 nationalities contribute to supply chain operations, manufacturing, marketing and sales of our medicines, and clinical research into new therapies.
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What you will do
The Maintenance department ensures the availability and reliability of our semi- and fully automated packaging, labeling, and assembly equipment within our production facility. By keeping our operations running smoothly, you help ensure medicines reach patients around the world.
As Maintenance Manager, you lead, mentor, and develop a team of Shift Leads and Maintenance Technicians (roughly 10 direct reports). In addition, you coordinate the work of external maintenance service providers. You combine strong leadership with solid technical insight and you thrive in a dynamic manufacturing environment. With your analytical mindset, you prioritize maintenance activities effectively and define and execute our maintenance strategy. By contributing to continuous improvement initiatives, you help enhance equipment reliability and operational performance.
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will:
- Lead, mentor and develop your team, enabling them to perform at their best and grow professionally.
- Coach and support your team in applying analytical problem-solving methodologies to identify and structurally resolve root causes of equipment breakdowns and performance losses, driving sustainable improvements in production equipment performance.
- Plan and schedule maintenance resources to ensure optimal support for production operations.
- Drive equipment improvements to enhance availability, reliability and performance.
- Manage and prioritize maintenance workload and collaborate closely with planning and scheduling teams.
- Coordinate major maintenance activities with internal teams and external suppliers to ensure safe and effective execution.
- Co-manage the maintenance budget and strategy together with the other Manager Maintenance and the Senior Manager Maintenance.
- Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders (Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality) and external service providers.
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What we expect of you
The Manager Maintenance we seek is a people leader with technical knowhow and the following qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in (Maintenance) Engineering or equivalent level obtained through experience.
- 7 – 10 years experience as a people manager in an industrial maintenance environment.
- Proven experience setting and executing maintenance strategies for high value equipment.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Solid technical understanding of industrial equipment and maintenance processes.
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment (e.g., GMP).
- Analytical mindset and familiarity with Maintenance Management Systems such as Maximo.
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What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that care for others, we also invest in the growth, well-being and development of our teammates. Amgen has been recognized as a World’s Best Workplace.
- Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our broad site operations department.
- Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.
- Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising competitive salary, bonus structure, fixed 13th month, Amgen shares, holiday allowance and a collective health insurance.
- Focus on vitality with an on-site gym, sports fields and a restaurant with healthy food.
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